Mine Owner Shouts At News Choppers: "There's No Emergency Here"

digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - Mine Owner Shouts At News Choppers: "There's No Emergency Here" stumble reddit del.ico.us RSS

Huffington Post   |  Amanda Dobbins
First Posted: 08- 7-07 01:03 PM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:44 AM

I Like ItI Don’t Like It
2007-08-07-owner2.jpg

From CNN:

During a press conference Tuesday on the status of six men trapped in a Utah coal mine, Robert E. Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Co. (an owner of the Crandall Canyon mine) yelled at circling news helicopters and insisted, "There is no emergency here." He ordered the sheriff to get rid of the helicopters, screaming on-camera to "get 'er done."

Murray spent a majority of the conference asserting an earthquake was to blame for the cave-in and repeatedly denied that any mine practices might have played a role.

Read more here.

Report Corrections
 



Comments for this entry are currently under maintenance but will be restored soon.